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Test Improvement

Files: __tests__/utils/duration.test.ts (new), __tests__/utils/labelCatalog.test.ts. No src/, dist/, docs/ or config change — disjoint from every open held PR (#510–#541): the existing parseDuration table lives in __tests__/plugins/requireMatchingLabel.test.ts, which #520 occupies, so the new cases get their own file under __tests__/utils/.

A single-operator mutation probe over src/utils/{duration,labelCatalog,labeling,comments}.ts on main @ 88241f4 (details in the folded record on #523) left three non-equivalent survivors against their npx vitest related sets. One case per survivor:

• duration.ts:12 .trim() removed — parseDuration accepts ' 5s', '5s ', '\t2m\n', ' 0 ' and ' ' (yaml-folded values), returning 5000 / 5000 / 120000 / 0 / 0 rather than throwing.
• duration.ts:29 Math.round removed — 1.5ms, 2.25ms and 0.0015s all yield the integer 2.
• labelCatalog.ts:86 toLowerCase() before startsWith('needs-') removed — desiredLabels gives Needs-Kind and NEEDS-SIG missing labels the ededed color.

Also pins the field parameter of parseDuration's error (invalid delay 'soon'), which only the default was asserted for.

Verification (this branch, local)

• npx vitest run __tests__/utils/duration.test.ts __tests__/utils/labelCatalog.test.ts: 24 passed
• same, with each mutant applied in turn: 5 / 3 / 1 failed (mutants reverted, not committed)
• npx eslint on both files: clean

Related Issue

Refs #523 — hive-open-issue consolidated this finding onto that tracker (its newest comment carries the full table); the tracker's own trigger.ts items and the other folded findings remain open and are owned by other PRs (#524, #528, #537, #541).

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